Johnnie Cochran cross-examines LAPD Officer Robert Riske, establishing that the blood photographs of the rear gate at Bundy (Exhibit 53-A) were taken after Riske left the scene at 7:15am, that fingerprint dust and SID photographer markers were not present while Riske was there, and that Dennis Fung never appeared at the scene during Riske's watch. Cochran also highlights that Riske's written report (D-1010), authored at 5:15am, omits any mention of going inside the residence, using Nicole Simpson's phone, or observing an envelope bearing O.J. Simpson's return address — details the prosecution had elicited on direct. A secondary thread establishes that the cell phone Detective Phillips gave Riske had a dead battery the entire time, undercutting the communications timeline.
# 1 MR. COCHRAN: I ASKED IF HE KNEW.
# 2 THE COURT: HE SAID NO. THE ANSWER WILL STAND.
# 3 MR. COCHRAN: THANK YOU, YOUR HONOR.
# 4 Q: WERE YOU PRESENT AT ANY TIME ANY PICTURES WERE TAKEN OF THE SUPPOSED BLOOD ON THE REAR GATE?
# 6 MR. COCHRAN: MAY I PUT THIS EXHIBIT UP HERE FOR A MOMENT, YOUR HONOR?
# 7 THE COURT: WHICH EXHIBIT?
# 8 MR. COCHRAN: IT IS THE ONE OF THE PHOTOGRAPHS OF THE REAR GATE. THIS, FOR THE RECORD, YOUR HONOR, IS 53-A.
# 9 Q: SO THAT WE ARE CLEAR, OFFICER RISKE, THESE PHOTOGRAPHS DEPICTED ON 53-A, YOU NEVER SAW THOSE TAKEN ON JUNE 13, DID YOU?
# 11 Q: IN FACT, WHILE YOU WERE STILL OUT THERE ON JUNE 13, BEFORE YOU LEFT, HAD THEY STARTED HOSING DOWN THAT AREA YET?
# 13 Q: YOU DIDN'T COME BACK ON ANY DATE AFTER THAT, DID YOU?
# 14 A: JUST IN PASSING TO CHASE AWAY LOOKIE-LOOS AND STUFF.
# 15 Q: THAT WAS DURING JUST THE COURSE OF YOUR PATROL DUTIES?
# 17 Q: AND AT SOME POINT IN THE COURSE OF YOUR PATROL DUTIES, AFTER JUNE 13, YOU BECAME AWARE THAT SOMEBODY HOSED DOWN THIS ENTIRE AREA, DID YOU NOT?
# 18 A: I ASSUME THEY HOSED IT DOWN AFTER THEY WERE DONE.
# 19 Q: ALL RIGHT. YOU SAW THE BLOOD WAS UP AT SOME POINT, DID YOU NOT, WHEN YOU DROVE PAST?
# 21 Q: DO YOU KNOW WHEN THAT WAS, SIR?
# 25 Q: THE PHOTOGRAPHS MISS CLARK SHOWED YOU TO YOUR LEFT WITH REGARD TO THE EXHIBITS AND THE SUPPOSED BLOOD ON THE REAR GATE AT BUNDY, THOSE WERE NOT TAKEN WHEN YOU WERE THERE ON JUNE 13, WERE THEY?
# 27 Q: YES, OF THE GATE?
# 29 MR. COCHRAN: I SEE SOME DARK POWDERY SUBSTANCE ON THE REAR GATE. YOUR HONOR, THIS IS ON 53-A.
# 30 Q: DO YOU KNOW WHAT THAT DARK COLORING IS ON THAT GATE?
# 31 A: THAT WOULD BE AN ASSUMPTION.
KEY QUOTE # 32 Q: YOU ARE A POLICE OFFICER.
# 33 A: I WOULD ASSUME IT IS PRINT DUST.
# 34 Q: ALL RIGHT. WAS THAT PRINT DUST ON THERE WHEN YOU WERE THERE THAT NIGHT?
# 36 Q: THAT IS SOMETHING THAT WAS PUT ON AFTERWARDS; IS THAT CORRECT?
# 38 Q: SO WHEN YOU LEFT AT 7:15 ON JUNE 13, THAT PRINT DUST WASN'T THERE, WAS IT?
# 40 Q: WHEN YOU WERE OUT THERE ON JUNE 13, UP TO THE TIME THAT YOU LEFT AT 7:15, YOU DIDN'T SEE ANYBODY OUT WITH ONE OF THESE LITTLE RULERS SAYING "LOS ANGELES POLICE DEPARTMENT SCIENTIFIC INVESTIGATION DIVISION PHOTOGRAPHIC SECTION" AS DEPICTED ON 53-D? YOU DIDN'T SEE THAT?
# 42 Q: AND AS BEST YOU CAN TELL, IN LOOKING AT 53-A FROM YOUR VANTAGE POINT THERE, THOSE PURPORT TO BE PHOTOGRAPHS NUMBERED OF THE REAR GATE AT BUNDY; IS THAT CORRECT?
# 44 Q: HAVE YOU EVER SEEN ANY PHOTOGRAPHS IN CONNECTION WITH THIS CASE OF PICTURES TAKEN OF THE FRONT GATE AT BUNDY?
# 45 A: NOT SPECIFICALLY OF THE FRONT GATE, NO.
# 46 Q: NOW, AS A POLICE OFFICER OF SOME FOUR YEARS EXPERIENCE, YOU AWARE OF HOW PHOTOGRAPHS ARE TAKEN SEQUENTIALLY SO THAT THE NUMBERS -- YOU TRY NOT TO MIX UP THE NUMBERS WHEN YOU ARE TAKING PHOTOGRAPHS. IS THAT A FAIR STATEMENT? YOU ARE TRAINED NOT TO DO THAT?
# 47 A: I DON'T TAKE PICTURES WITH NUMBERS BY THEM. I'M SORRY, I DON'T KNOW.
# 48 Q: YOU HAVE NO KNOWLEDGE OF THAT?
# 49 A: I HAVE SEEN THEM TAKE PICTURES. I HAVE SEEN THEM NUMBER EVIDENCE, BUT I HAVE NO KNOWLEDGE OF HOW TO DO IT.
# 50 MR. COCHRAN: ALL RIGHT. I WOULD LIKE TO, YOUR HONOR, MARK ANOTHER PHOTOGRAPH, IF I CAN. I WILL MARK THIS DEFENDANT'S 1007.
# 51 THE COURT: ALL RIGHT.
# 52 MR. COCHRAN: D-1007.
# 53 (DEFT'S 1007 FOR ID = PHOTOGRAPH) # 54 MR. COCHRAN: I WOULD LIKE TO APPROACH. SHOW IT TO COUNSEL.
# 55 (DISCUSSION HELD OFF THE RECORD BETWEEN DEPUTY DISTRICT ATTORNEY AND DEFENSE COUNSEL.) # 56 MR. COCHRAN: I'M GOING TO PLACE DEFENDANT'S 1007 BEFORE YOU.
# 57 Q: AND DO YOU RECOGNIZE THAT MAN DEPICTED IN THAT PHOTOGRAPH?
# 58 A: I DON'T KNOW HIS NAME, BUT I RECOGNIZE HIM.
# 60 A: I BELIEVE HE WORKS FOR SID.
# 61 Q: AS A CRIMINALIST?
# 63 Q: WOULD THE NAME FUNG, F-U-N-G, RING A BELL TO YOU?
# 65 Q: DID YOU EVER SEE THIS MAN, MR. DENNIS FUNG, AT THE CRIME SCENE WHILE YOU WERE THERE?
# 67 Q: HE WASN'T THERE WHILE YOU WERE THERE, WAS HE?
# 69 Q: HE APPEARS TO BE IN D-1007 POINTING TO AN AREA NEAR THE TOP OF THE FENCE AND THIS IS THE FENCE THAT IS DEPICTED HERE ON 53-A; IS THAT CORRECT?
# 70 A: TOP OF THE GATE, YES.
# 71 Q: TOP OF THE GATE. AND YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT DATE THIS PICTURE -- THIS PHOTOGRAPH WAS TAKEN, DO YOU?
# 73 MR. COCHRAN: I NEXT WANT TO MARK, YOUR HONOR, D-1008 AND I WILL SHOW IT TO COUNSEL AND IT IS A PHOTOGRAPH ALSO OF THE FENCE ON THE PROPERTY.
# 74 THE COURT: ALL RIGHT.
# 75 (DEFT'S 1008 FOR ID = PHOTOGRAPH) # 76 Q: BY MR. COCHRAN: I WANT YOU TO LOOK AT THIS PHOTOGRAPH, D-1008. THERE IS A NO. 116, A CARD WITH "116" THEREON, AND I WANT YOU TO SEE WHETHER OR NOT YOU RECOGNIZE THAT PARTICULAR PHOTOGRAPH?
# 77 A: LOOKS LIKE A PICTURE OF A GATE BUT --
# 78 Q: ALL RIGHT. DO YOU KNOW WHICH GATE THAT IS ON THE PROPERTY?
# 79 A: I CAN MAKE AN ASSUMPTION.
# 80 Q: WELL, TO, NOT AN ASSUMPTION. DO YOU KNOW WHICH ONE IT IS?
# 81 A: BOTH THE GATES LOOK THE SAME. I DON'T KNOW.
# 82 Q: ALL RIGHT. HOW MANY GATES ARE THERE ALTOGETHER, SIR?
# 84 Q: THERE IS THE REAR GATE, RIGHT, WE HAVE BEEN TALKING ABOUT?
# 86 Q: WHERE IS THIS OTHER GATE?
# 88 Q: THERE IS ONE NEAR THE FRONT?
# 90 Q: SO CAN YOU LOOK AT THIS AND TELL WHETHER THIS IS IN THE FRONT OR IN THE REAR?
# 91 A: I WOULD SAY THAT WAS IN THE FRONT.
# 92 Q: YOU THINK THIS WAS IN THE FRONT. ALL RIGHT. NOW, IF THIS WAS IN THE FRONT -- IF D-1000 -- IF D-1008 IS IN THE FRONT, DO YOU THINK IT HAS A NO. 116 ON IT WHEN YOU HAVE TURNED AND LOOK TO YOUR RIGHT AT 53-B?
# 93 MS. CLARK: OBJECTION. THE WITNESS HAS INDICATED HE HAS NO KNOWLEDGE OF THE NUMBERS.
# 94 MR. COCHRAN: MAY WE APPROACH, YOUR HONOR?
# 95 THE COURT: SUSTAINED.
# 96 MR. COCHRAN: MAY WE APPROACH ON THIS?
# 98 MR. COCHRAN: THANK YOU.
# 99 (THE FOLLOWING PROCEEDINGS WERE HELD AT THE BENCH:) # 101 MR. COCHRAN: YOUR HONOR -- GOOD AFTERNOON, YOUR HONOR.
# 102 THE COURT: GOOD AFTERNOON. YOU ASKED ME FOR A SIDE BAR AND YOU STAND ME UP.
# 103 MR. COCHRAN: WE WERE TRYING TO BRING A LARGE EXHIBIT AND WE COULDN'T -- MARCIA AND I WERE FUMBLING AROUND AND WE COULDN'T FIND IT. WE WILL BE ABLE TO DEMONSTRATE THIS IN AN OFFER OF PROOF. THESE GUYS MISLABELED EVERYTHING. FIRST OF ALL, LET ME TELL YOU THE OFFER OF PROOF.
# 104 THE COURT: BUT FOR THIS GUY TO TELL YOU THIS? IS A BRAND NEW POLICE OFFICER WHO DOESN'T KNOW HOW THEY DO THIS STUFF. TO ASK HIM HOW -- IF IT MAKES ANY SENSE, IT IS A MEANINGLESS ANSWER.
# 105 MR. COCHRAN: HE IS THE FIRST GUY AT THE SCENE AND HE IS THE GUY WHO IS IN CHARGE UNTIL THE OTHER GUYS GET THERE. HE MAY BE A NEW OFFICER, BUT THESE JURORS DON'T KNOW THAT, AND MARCIA HAS HIM AS THE GREATEST SLEUTH SINCE SHERLOCK HOLMES. SHE BUILDS THIS GUY UP. AND YOU TELL ME HE IS A NEW GUY. THAT WAS ABOUT A HUNDRED QUESTIONS AGO.
# 106 THE COURT: HE IS GOING TO ANSWER THIS QUESTION BY SAYING I HAVE NO IDEA.
# 107 MR. COCHRAN: WELL, THEN IF HE SAYS THAT, THEN I WILL MOVE ON, BUT ALL I WANT --
# 108 MS. CLARK: HE ALREADY SAID. THAT IS THE PROBLEM. THAT IS WHY YOU SHOULD ALREADY MOVE ON.
# 109 MR. COCHRAN: LET ME TELL YOU WHAT I AM TRYING TO ESTABLISH.
# 110 MS. CLARK: WE ALL KNOW WHAT YOU ARE TRYING TO ESTABLISH, JOHNNIE. THE THING IS YOU ARE GOING TO --
# 111 THE COURT: HOLD ON.
# 112 MS. CLARK: -- BUT THIS IS ROTTEN.
# 113 THE COURT: MARCIA, DO ME A HUGE FAVOR. WHEN I SAY "HOLD ON," THAT MEANS STOP.
# 114 MR. COCHRAN: OKAY. I'M TRYING TO ESTABLISH WHAT DID HE MEAN BY SAYING -- THIS IS RIGHT, THIS IS THE FRONT GATE, THAT -- AND YOU MAY BE RIGHT, YOU USUALLY ARE. NOT ALWAYS, BUT YOU USUALLY ARE.
# 115 THE COURT: THERE ARE SEVERAL WITNESSES WHO CAN ESTABLISH -- WHO ARE COMING WHO CAN ESTABLISH THAT. IT DOESN'T MAKE LOGICAL SENSE TO ME, BUT THIS IS NOT THE RIGHT GUY.
# 116 MR. COCHRAN: YOU KNOW WHAT --
# 117 MR. DARDEN: WHY DO YOU WANT TO BEAT UP ON A KID? ON 85-YEAR OLD WOMEN AND A KID.
# 118 MR. COCHRAN: I WAS SO NICE TO THAT LADY YESTERDAY AND SHE WAS TUNING ME OUT.
# 119 MS. CLARK: WE ALL WANTED TO.
# 120 MR. COCHRAN: OKAY, JUDGE, I WILL MOVE ON ON THIS. I THINK THE POINT IS WELL TAKEN.
# 121 THE COURT: ALL RIGHT.
# 122 MR. COCHRAN: IN FACT, I WILL WITHDRAW THAT.
# 123 THE COURT: ALL RIGHT.
# 124 MR. COCHRAN: IS THAT --
# 125 MS. CLARK: ALL THAT EFFORT.
# 127 (THE FOLLOWING PROCEEDINGS WERE HELD IN OPEN COURT:) # 128 THE COURT: THANK YOU, COUNSEL. MR. COCHRAN.
# 129 MR. COCHRAN: THANK YOU, YOUR HONOR.
# 130 Q: WITH REGARD TO D-1008, WHICH YOU HAVE INDICATED YOU BELIEVE TO BE NO. 116 ON THE FRONT GATE, YOU -- WERE YOU PRESENT WHEN THIS PHOTOGRAPH WAS TAKEN?
# 132 Q: ALL RIGHT. YOU DESCRIBED THAT AT SOME POINT WHEN DETECTIVE PHILLIPS AND FUHRMAN WERE STILL IN CHARGE, I PRESUME, OR AT SOME POINT THAT MORNING -- STRIKE THE LATTER PART -- THAT DETECTIVE PHILLIPS CAME TO YOU AND ASKED YOU FOR DIRECTIONS TO THE ROCKINGHAM RESIDENCE?
# 133 A: IT WAS EITHER PHILLIPS OR FUHRMAN. I KNOW PHILLIPS GAVE ME A PHONE AND ONE OF THEM ASKED ME DIRECTIONS.
# 134 Q: WELL, LET'S THINK BACK IN YOUR MIND'S EYE. DID FUHRMAN EVER SAY TO YOU THAT HE HAD BEEN TO THAT LOCATION BEFORE THAT MORNING?
# 136 Q: TO THE ROCKINGHAM RESIDENCE, MR. O.J. SIMPSON'S HOME?
# 138 Q: HE NEVER SAID THAT?
# 140 Q: ALL RIGHT. THIS WAS PREPARATORY TO THE OFFICERS GOING OVER TO THE ROCKINGHAM RESIDENCE?
# 142 Q: SO BY THAT TIME VANNATTER AND LANGE WERE ALSO PRESENT; ISN'T THAT CORRECT?
# 144 Q: WERE YOU AWARE THAT DETECTIVE VANNATTER KNEW HOW TO GET OVER TO THAT LOCATION, HAVING WORKED WEST LOS ANGELES?
# 146 Q: BY THAT TIME VANNATTER AND LANGE WOULD THEN BE THE ONES IN CHARGE; ISN'T THAT CORRECT?
# 147 A: I ASSUME SO, YES.
# 148 Q: ONCE THEY ARRIVED AT THE SCENE?
# 150 Q: SO WAS IT YOUR UNDERSTANDING ALL FOUR OF THESE DETECTIVES, VANNATTER, LANGE, FUHRMAN AND PHILLIPS, WERE GOING TO ROCKINGHAM?
# 152 Q: AND CAN YOU -- DID YOU SEE THEM LEAVE AT SOME POINT TO GO TO THAT LOCATION?
# 153 A: NO. PHILLIPS GAVE ME A PHONE. THAT IS THE LAST TIME I SAW HIM.
# 154 Q: NOW, WHEN PHILLIPS GAVE YOU A PHONE, WHAT KIND OF PHONE WAS THIS? A CELLULAR PHONE?
# 155 A: IT WAS A CELLULAR PHONE.
# 156 Q: ONE OF THOSE LITTLE HAND-HELD CELLULAR PHONES?
# 158 Q: WAS THAT PHONE OWNED BY THE CITY OF LOS ANGELES?
# 159 A: I DON'T KNOW. HE JUST GAVE ME A PHONE AND SAID, "IF YOU NEED ANYTHING, CALL ME."
# 160 Q: YOU DON'T KNOW WHERE THAT PHONE COME FROM?
# 162 Q: YOU HAD NEVER SEEN HIM BEFORE?
# 164 Q: HE JUST HANDED IT TO YOU?
# 166 Q: WHAT TIME OF THE EVENING OR EARLY MORNING WAS THAT THAT DETECTIVE PHILLIPS HANDED YOU THE CELL PHONE?
# 167 A: IT WAS BEFORE THEY LEFT.
# 168 Q: WAS IT LIGHT, SIR, AT THAT POINT?
# 172 Q: IT WAS YOUR UNDERSTANDING THAT ALL FOUR OF THESE DETECTIVES WERE GOING TO LEAVE TO GO OVER TO MR. O.J. SIMPSON'S HOUSE?
# 173 A: THAT WAS MY UNDERSTANDING, YES.
# 174 Q: HAD YOU SHARED WITH THEM THE FACT THAT YOU SAW AN ENVELOPE WITH A RETURN ADDRESS OF MR. SIMPSON INSIDE THE HOUSE? HAD YOU TOLD ANYBODY THAT?
# 175 A: I DON'T THINK SO, NO.
# 176 Q: HAD ANY OF THESE OFFICERS, OTHER THAN FUHRMAN THAT YOU KNOW OF, BEEN INSIDE TO SEE THE PHOTOS ON THE WALL?
# 177 A: JUST PHILLIPS, PHILLIPS AND MYSELF.
# 178 Q: ALL RIGHT. AND DO YOU RECALL HAVING ANY CONVERSATION AT ALL WITH VANNATTER OR LANGE ABOUT WHERE O.J. SIMPSON LIVED?
# 180 Q: ALL RIGHT. NOW, WHEN PHILLIPS HANDED YOU THIS CELLULAR PHONE, YOU KEPT IT IN YOUR POSSESSION?
# 182 Q: DID YOU EVER GIVE IT BACK TO HIM THAT MORNING?
# 184 Q: WHAT TIME WAS THAT YOU GAVE IT BACK TO HIM, SIR, IF YOU RECALL?
# 185 A: IT WAS WHEN HE AND FUHRMAN RETURNED TO THE SCENE. I DON'T KNOW WHAT TIME IT WAS.
# 186 Q: DO YOU KNOW -- YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT TIME THAT WAS?
# 188 Q: WHILE YOU HAVE THAT PHONE, DID YOU MAKE ANY PHONE CALLS ON THAT CELLULAR PHONE?
# 190 Q: DO YOU KNOW WHETHER OR NOT PHILLIPS HAD ANOTHER PHONE OR A SECOND PHONE?
# 191 A: I DON'T KNOW. HE JUST GAVE ME A PHONE.
# 192 Q: WHEN HE GAVE YOU THE PHONE HE SAID, "CALL ME IF YOU NEED ME"?
# 193 A: NO, HE SAID, "WE'LL CALL IF WE NEED ANYTHING."
# 194 Q: HE SAID "WE'LL CALL"?
# 196 Q: MEANING ONE OF THE FOUR DETECTIVES WOULD CALL YOU BACK?
# 198 Q: OKAY. HAVE YOU EVER SEEN A LOG OF DETECTIVE PHILLIPS' PHONE CALL MADE THAT PARTICULAR MORNING?
# 200 Q: AND WHILE YOU HAD THE PHONE -- PHONE IN YOUR POSSESSION, YOU NEVER MADE ANY CALLS, RIGHT?
# 202 Q: WHAT TIME DO YOU THINK THAT DETECTIVE PHILLIPS RETURNED FROM THE ROCKINGHAM RESIDENCE, AT THE TIME YOU GAVE HIM THE PHONE BACK?
# 203 A: I WOULD ESTIMATE SOMETIME AROUND 6:30 IN THE MORNING.
# 205 A: MAYBE A LITTLE LATER. I'M NOT SURE.
# 206 Q: ABOUT HOW LONG WOULD YOU SAY THEY WERE GONE?
# 207 A: I WOULD SAY A LITTLE OVER AN HOUR.
# 208 Q: WOULD YOU -- AS YOU SEARCH YOUR MEMORY, DO YOU THINK THAT THEY LEFT SOMEWHERE AROUND 5:30 AND CAME BACK AT ABOUT 6:30 OR 6:40?
# 209 A: I'M NOT POSITIVE WHAT TIME THEY LEFT, NO, SIR.
# 210 Q: DID YOU KEEP THE PHONE ON YOUR PERSON AT ALL TIMES DURING THAT HOUR?
# 211 A: IT WAS ON THE DASH OF MY PATROL CAR, YES.
# 212 Q: WAS ANYBODY ELSE IN THE PATROL CAR WITH YOU?
# 215 A: MY PARTNER WAS NEAR IT, BUT NOT IN IT, NO.
# 216 Q: DO YOU KNOW WHETHER OR NOT HE USED IT?
# 217 A: NOBODY COULD HAVE USED IT. IT DIDN'T WORK.
KEY QUOTE # 219 A: THE BATTERY WAS DEAD.
# 220 Q: BATTERY HAD GONE DOWN AT THAT POINT?
# 222 Q: SO WHEN YOU GAVE THIS CELLULAR PHONE BACK TO PHILLIPS THE BATTERY HAD GONE DOWN; IS THAT RIGHT, OR WAS DOWN?
# 224 Q: HOW DO YOU KNOW IT WAS DOWN? YOU TRIED TO USE IT?
# 225 A: BECAUSE I BELIEVE THEY CALLED -- THEY EITHER HAD A BLACK AND WHITE WITH THEM AND THEY USED THE RADIO TO CONTACT US, OR THEY HAD ANOTHER PHONE, BECAUSE I TRIED TO SEE IF THE PHONE WAS BROKEN AND IT WASN'T WORKING AT ALL.
# 226 Q: SO YOU TRIED TO USE IT AND IT DIDN'T WORK DURING THAT TIME?
# 227 A: I TURNED IT ON TO SEE IF THEY WERE TRYING TO CALL US AND IT WAS DEAD.
# 228 Q: YOU COULDN'T TURN IT ON?
# 230 MR. COCHRAN: YOUR HONOR, I'M GOING TO MARK THIS AT THIS POINT AS DEFENDANT'S NEXT IN ORDER, D-1009.
# 232 MR. COCHRAN: AND 9.
# 233 (DEFT'S 1009 FOR ID = 2-PG PHONE LOG) # 234 Q: BY MR. COCHRAN: DO YOU HAPPEN TO KNOW THE NUMBER OF THAT PARTICULAR PHONE?
# 236 MS. CLARK: YOUR HONOR, MAY I SEE WHAT IT IS COUNSEL MARKED?
# 238 (DISCUSSION HELD OFF THE RECORD BETWEEN DEPUTY DISTRICT ATTORNEY AND DEFENSE COUNSEL.) # 239 Q: BY MR. COCHRAN: AND I PRESUME YOU DON'T KNOW THE NUMBER OF THE PHONE THAT YOU HAD AT THAT PARTICULAR EVENING?
# 241 Q: NOW, WHEN YOU WROTE -- YOU WROTE OUT A REPORT REGARDING YOUR OBSERVATIONS THAT PARTICULAR MORNING; ISN'T THAT CORRECT?
# 242 A: I WOULDN'T CALL IT A REPORT; I MADE A STATEMENT.
# 243 Q: OKAY. WELL, YOU WROTE OUT A STATEMENT ABOUT YOUR INVOLVEMENT ON THAT PARTICULAR MORNING?
# 245 Q: AND IN WRITING THAT STATEMENT OUT YOU TRIED TO BE, OF COURSE, AS ACCURATE AS YOU COULD?
# 246 A: I WROTE WHAT ACTIONS WE TOOK. I DIDN'T WRITE OUT EVERYTHING, NO.
# 247 Q: THE QUESTION IS DID YOU TRY TO BE ACCURATE IN WHAT YOU WROTE?
# 249 Q: WHEN YOU WERE IN THE ACADEMY YOU LEARNED HOW TO WRITE REPORT, DID YOU NOT?
# 251 Q: WHAT TIME, OFFICER RISKE, DID YOU WRITE THIS REPORT, DO YOU RECALL?
# 252 A: I WOULD SAY AROUND 4:30.
# 253 MR. COCHRAN: ALL RIGHT. LET ME APPROACH AND I WOULD LIKE TO MARK THIS D-1010, YOUR HONOR.
# 254 THE COURT: ALL RIGHT. D-1010.
# 255 MR. COCHRAN: D-1010 AND I WOULD LIKE TO APPROACH.
# 256 (DEFT'S 1010 FOR ID = 2-PG DOC/R. RISKE) # 257 Q: BY MR. COCHRAN: I'M GOING TO SHOW YOU THIS REPORT, FIRST OF ALL, AND ASK YOU IF THIS PRINTING IS YOURS, FIRST OF ALL, OFFICER RISKE? WOULD YOU LOOK AT D-1010. IS THAT YOURS?
# 259 Q: IS THIS PRINTING YOUR PRINTING?
# 261 Q: I WANT TO TURN IT OVER. THIS PURPORTS TO BE A SIGNATURE HERE.
# 263 Q: IS THAT YOUR SIGNATURE?
# 265 Q: AND IT HAS -- IS THAT YOUR NUMBER AS AN LAPD OFFICER?
# 267 Q: WEST L.A. PATROL AND 6/13/94. WHAT TIME WAS THAT?
# 269 Q: AND SO YOU WROTE THIS REPORT WHILE YOU WERE STILL AT THE SCENE; IS THAT CORRECT?
# 271 Q: AND WHERE DID YOU WRITE THIS REPORT? WHERE WERE YOU WHEN YOU WROTE IT?
# 272 A: I WAS IN THE REAR ALLEY SITTING IN MY CAR.
# 273 Q: WERE YOU ACCOMPANIED BY ANYBODY AT THAT POINT?
# 274 A: MY PARTNER, OFFICER TERRAZAS.
# 275 Q: OKAY. HE WROTE A REPORT ALSO?
# 277 Q: DID YOU BOTH WRITE THEM AT THE SAME TIME?
# 279 Q: WHO WROTE THEIR REPORT FIRST, IF YOU RECALL?
# 280 A: I BELIEVE HE DID.
# 281 Q: YOU THINK HE PROCEEDED FIRST?
# 283 Q: DOES IT REFRESH YOUR RECOLLECTION THAT YOU WROTE YOUR REPORT AT ABOUT 5:15 IN THE MORNING?
# 285 Q: NOW, IN THIS REPORT -- YOU DON'T AT ANY PLACE IN THIS REPORT INDICATE THAT YOU WENT INSIDE THE RESIDENCE, USED THE PHONE, CALLED SERGEANT ROSSI, SAW AN ENVELOPE WITH O.J. SIMPSON'S NAME -- RETURN ADDRESS THEREON AND FELT HE WAS IN ANY WAY INVOLVED? YOU DON'T MENTION THAT, DO YOU?
# 286 A: I DON'T BELIEVE SO, NO.
KEY QUOTE # 287 Q: DO YOU WANT TO TAKE A LOOK AND SEE?
# 288 A: I DON'T BELIEVE IT IS IN THERE.
# 289 Q: WHY DON'T YOU READ IT TO YOURSELF, FIRST OF ALL, AND THEN WE WILL ASK YOU SOME QUESTIONS.
# 290 A: (WITNESS COMPLIES.) OKAY.
# 291 Q: HAVE YOU READ THAT TO YOURSELF?
# 293 Q: AND YOU DON'T SEE ANYWHERE IN THAT REPORT WHERE YOU MENTIONED GOING IN AND USING MISS NICOLE BROWN SIMPSON'S PHONE, DO YOU?
# 295 Q: IN FACT, WHAT YOU INDICATE SPECIFICALLY IS THAT, AND I WILL QUOTE:
"I THEN OBSERVED BLOODY FOOTPRINTS ON THE STEPS AND LANDING BEHIND VICTIM 1. FOOTPRINTS WERE HEADED WESTBOUND ON THE SIDEWALK BETWEEN 873 AND 875 SOUTH BUNDY." YOU WROTE THAT, DID YOU NOT?
# 297 Q: "I THEN OBSERVED THE FRONT DOOR OF 875 SOUTH BUNDY TO BE STANDING OPEN." YOU WROTE THAT, DIDN'T YOU?
# 299 Q: "MY PARTNER AND I THEN BACKED OUT AND REQUESTED A SUPERVISOR, ADDITIONAL UNITS, R/A." WHAT DOES "R/A" MEAN?
# 300 A: RESCUE AMBULANCE.
# 301 Q: SO NOW WHEN YOU SAID YOU BACKED OUT AND REQUESTED A SUPERVISOR, WAS THAT SERGEANT ROSSI?
# 303 Q: SERGEANT COON. AND YOU DIDN'T WRITE THAT ON THERE, THAT YOU WENT INSIDE AND MADE A CALL TO YOUR IMMEDIATE SUPERVISOR, DID YOU?
# 304 A: NO, I DIDN'T, NO.
# 305 Q: NOW, YOU WERE ASKED A NUMBER OF QUESTIONS ABOUT HOW YOU PUT UP THESE -- THIS YELLOW TAPE TO SECURE THE SCENE. DO YOU RECALL THAT?
# 307 Q: AND AGAIN THAT WAS AN EFFORT TO TRY AND KEEP INTRUDERS OUT; IS THAT CORRECT?
# 309 Q: POLICE OFFICERS, HOWEVER, WERE FREE TO COME AND GO INSIDE THAT SCENE; ISN'T THAT CORRECT?
# 311 Q: THEY WEREN'T FREE TO COME AND GO?
# 313 Q: THERE WEREN'T A NUMBER OF POLICE OFFICERS WHO WALKED INSIDE THAT SCENE?
# 314 A: NO, THERE WEREN'T.
# 315 Q: AND IS THAT DURING THE TIME YOU WERE THERE?
# 316 A: DURING THE TIME I WAS THERE, RIGHT.
# 317 Q: YOU CAN'T SPEAK WHAT HAPPENED LATER, CAN YOU?
# 319 Q: BUT WHILE YOU WERE THERE --
# 320 MS. CLARK: OBJECTION, VAGUE, "THERE" AS OPPOSED TO WHEN HE LEFT THE SCENE.
# 321 THE COURT: OVERRULED.
# 322 Q: BY MR. COCHRAN: WHILE YOU WERE THERE, WHEN THE YELLOW TAPE WAS UP, GIVE US THE NAMES OF THE OFFICERS WHO WALKED INSIDE THE RESIDENCE THERE OR INSIDE THIS CRIME SCENE INSIDE THE YELLOW TAPE AREA? WOULD YOU GIVE US THOSE NAMES?
# 323 A: JUST INSIDE THE CRIME SCENE?
# 324 Q: YES, AND WHO WERE IN AND AROUND THE AREA THERE AT THE BUNDY CRIME SCENE?
# 325 MS. CLARK: OBJECTION AGAIN. THAT IS VAGUE. WHERE?
# 326 THE COURT: INSIDE THE TAPE?
# 327 MR. COCHRAN: INSIDE THE TAPE.
# 328 THE COURT: YOUR QUESTION WAS COMPOUND.
# 329 MR. COCHRAN: OKAY, YOUR HONOR.
# 330 THE COURT: AND COMPLEX.
# 331 MR. COCHRAN: LET ME MAKE IT CLEAR, IF I MIGHT. THANK YOU, YOUR HONOR.
# 332 Q: NOW, WITH REGARD TO -- WITH REGARD TO THE CRIME SCENE, I WANT YOU TO TELL THE COURT AND JURY THE OFFICERS WHO WERE GIVEN ANY ACCESS INSIDE EITHER THE FRONT GATE OR THE BACK GATE OR THE RESIDENCE THERE AT BUNDY WHILE YOU WERE THERE?
# 333 MS. CLARK: OBJECTION. THAT IS COMPOUND.
# 334 THE COURT: SUSTAINED.
# 335 MR. COCHRAN: ALL RIGHT.
# 336 Q: CAN YOU TELL US THE NAME OF ANY OFFICERS WHO WERE GIVEN ACCESS TO THE BUNDY CRIME SCENE WHILE YOU WERE THERE?
# 337 A: WELL, THE BUNDY CRIME SCENE ENCOMPASSES A LARGE AREA.
# 338 Q: I UNDERSTAND THAT. TELL ME THE NAMES OF THE OFFICERS.
# 339 A: I WOULD HAVE TO LOOK AT A LOG OR SOMETHING.
# 340 MR. COCHRAN: ALL RIGHT. MAY I APPROACH AGAIN, YOUR HONOR?
# 341 THE COURT: YOU MAY.
# 342 MR. COCHRAN: WITH 1006?
# 345 Q: BY MR. COCHRAN: I WILL PLACE BEFORE YOU D-1006 AND YOU CAN LOOK AT THIS AND REFRESH YOUR RECOLLECTION AND TELL THE COURT AND JURY WHICH OFFICERS, IF ANY, WERE GIVEN SUCH AN ACCESS.
# 346 A: THERE WAS MYSELF AND OFFICER TERRAZAS, SERGEANT COON, OFFICER WALLEY, OFFICER GLORIOSO WAS IN THE BACK, PHILLIPS AND FUHRMAN SERGEANT ROSSI AND THE DETECTIVES.
# 347 Q: ALL RIGHT. ANYBODY ELSE THAT YOU CAN RECALL AT THIS POINT?
# 349 Q: WHAT ABOUT LIEUTENANT SPANGLER, DID HE COME AT SOME POINT?
# 350 A: YES, SIR, HE CAME. HE WAS IN THE REAR.
# 351 Q: HE WAS A LIEUTENANT. HE COULD GET INSIDE, COULDN'T HE?
# 353 Q: LET'S SEE IF WE CAN COUNT THEM. IT WOULD BE RISKE AND TERRAZAS, TWO. CUMMINGS AND SANCHEZ, FOUR?
# 354 A: CUMMINGS AND SANCHEZ WEREN'T IN THE CRIME SCENE.
# 355 Q: THEY WERE NOT? SERGEANT COON WAS?
# 357 Q: WHAT ABOUT CAPTAIN ZIEMAN, HE WASN'T THERE?
# 358 A: HE WAS -- I BELIEVE HE WAS AT THE TAPE. THAT WAS IT. HE DIDN'T GO ACROSS THE TAPE. I SAW HIM AT THE TAPE.
# 359 Q: OKAY. MC ALLEN AND WALLEY?
# 360 A: IT IS ACTUALLY MC GOWAN.
# 362 A: HE DIDN'T GO IN THE CRIME SCENE; WALLEY DID.
# 363 Q: WALLEY, TWO. FIVE?
# 364 A: THEY WEREN'T THERE.
# 365 Q: OKAY. FOUR. WHAT ABOUT HYDER AND VASQUEZ?
# 366 A: THEY WENT TO THE FOOT OF THE ALLEY AND TOOK THE TWO CHILDREN TO THE STATION.
# 367 Q: WHAT ABOUT GLORIOSO?
# 368 A: GLORIOSO WAS IN THE REAR.
# 369 Q: AND THEN THE TWO DETECTIVES?
# 371 Q: AND THEN OF COURSE THE OTHER TWO DETECTIVES FROM ROBBERY/HOMICIDE?
# 372 A: SERGEANT ROSSI. I DON'T SEE HIS NAME.
# 373 Q: ROSSI, OKAY, AND POSSIBLY THE PHOTOGRAPHER?
# 374 A: NOT -- HE WENT ON THE GRASS, IF YOU CONSIDER THAT IN THE CRIME SCENE.
# 375 Q: HE WAS IN THE BACK TAKING PICTURES, WASN'T HE?
# 377 Q: ALL RIGHT. AND THEN VANNATTER AND LANGE; IS THAT CORRECT?
# 379 Q: CAN YOU RECALL ANY OTHERS AT THIS POINT, SIR?
# 381 Q: WAS THERE A CAPTAIN GARTLAND FROM HOMICIDE DETECTIVES WHO ARRIVED AT OR ABOUT 7:20? DID YOU SEE HIM THAT MORNING?
# 382 A: I WAS GONE. I LEFT AT 7:15.
# 383 Q: OKAY. SO YOU DIDN'T SEE CAPTAIN GARTLAND?
# 385 MR. COCHRAN: NOW, I WANT TO SHOW YOU NOW A PICTURE OR THREE PICTURES. I WOULD LIKE TO SHOW COUNSEL. AND ASK YOU WHETHER OR NOT YOU CAN RECOGNIZE THIS PARTICULAR OFFICER. I WILL SHOW THESE THREE PICTURES TO COUNSEL.
# 386 MS. CLARK: LIKE TO APPROACH, YOUR HONOR.
# 387 THE COURT: ALL RIGHT. WITH THE COURT REPORTER, PLEASE.